Black. Perfect Wives, Other Women : Adultery and Inquisition in Early Modern Spain.

“In Perfect Wives, Other Women Georgina Dopico Black examines the role played by women’s bodies-specifically the bodies of wives-in Spain and Spanish America during the Inquisition. In her quest to show how both the body and soul of the married woman became the site of anxious inquiry, Dopico Black mines a variety of Golden Age texts for instances in which the era’s persistent preoccupation with racial, religious, and cultural otherness was reflected in the depiction of women.”